Rhine river park, Bonn

Liang, Shao Fen(Fennie)

Research Associate in the Bio Health Informatics group,

School of Computer Science,

University of Manchester.
Qualification
  • PhD (April, 2008) in Computer Science, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland.
    Thesis title: Triangulated formulaic measurement and subjective impression in automatic summarisation.
  • MSc (Oct, 2002) in Electronic Commerce, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland.
  • BSc (Jun, 1985) in Applied Mathematics, Ming Chun University Taiwan.
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    Publications

    [1] Shao Fen Liang, Robert Stevens, Donia Scott and Alan Rector. OntoVerbal: a Prote´ge´ plugin for verbalising ontology classes. To be appeared in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012), Graz, Austria, 2012.
    [2] Shao Fen Liang, Robert Stevens and Alan Rector. OntoVerbal-M: a multilingual verbaliser for SNOMED CT. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW 2011) in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011), pages 13–24, Bonn, Germany, 2011.
    [3] Shao Fen Liang, Donia Scott, Robert Stevens and Alan Rector. Unlocking Medical Ontologies for Non-Ontology Experts. Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, ACL-HLT 2011, pages 174–181, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2011.
    [4] Shao Fen Liang, Robert Stevens, Donia Scott and Alan Rector. Automatic Verbalisation of SNOMED Classes Using OntoVerbal. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, LNAI 6747, pages 338–342, July2-6, Bled, Slovenia, 2011.
    [5] Shao Fen Liang. An Empirical Study of Automatic Summarisation. Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr.Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG. ISBN: 978-3-639-15000-1, 2009.
    [6]  Shao Fen Liang, Paul Smart and Nigel Shadbolt. Using Windmill Expansion for Document Retrieval. The Open Information Systems Journal, 3, 1-8, 2009.
    [7]  Paul Smart, Alistair Russell, Shao Fen Liang, Nigel Shadbolt, Chris Booth, Neil Briscombe and Andrew Rankin. Using Semantic Technologies to Improve Information Exploitation in Military and Civilian Application Contexts. Proceedings of Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations Conference, 2009.
    [8]  Shao Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin and John Tait. Investigating Sentence Weighting Components for Automatic Summarisation. Information Processing & Management, 43(1), 146-153, 2007.
    [9]  Chris Booth, Paul Smart, Shao Fen Liang and Andrew Rankin. SEMIOTIKS: Semantically-Enhanced Information Extraction for Improved Knowledge Superiority. DIF DTC Annual Conference 2007, 3-4 September, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 2007.
    [10]  Shao Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin and John Tait. Evaluating Web Search Result Summaries. 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR’06, 96-106, 2006.
    [11]  Shao Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin and John Tait. Using query term order for result summarisation. Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR’05, pages 629-630, 2005.
    [12]  Shao Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin and John Tait. Can automatic abstracting improve on current extracting techniques in aiding users to judge the relevance of pages in search engine results. Proceedings of the 7th Computational Linguistics UK, pages 154-159, 2004.
    [13]  Shao Fen Liang, Siobhan Devlin and John Tait. Feature Selection for Summarising: The Sunderland DUC 2004 Experience. Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference 2004, Boston USA, 2004.